Example sentences of "may [adv] [vb infin] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , drawing a line so roughly has its limitations : the eye can deceive and the heart may secretly desire a particular outcome . |
| 2 | On 24 November the lawyers replied ‘ respectfully to state our opinion that Your Majesty may properly grant a Royal Charter ’ , but it was not until 14 February 1844 that Thomas Turner was able to report to the standing committee of veterinary surgeons that their determined efforts had been rewarded and that the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons had been incorporated . |
| 3 | To operate in the PC environment you may additionally need a windowing environment like GEM or Microsoft Windows , an EGA or Hercules card and matching screen , a mouse and , in some instances , an AT rather than a PC . |
| 4 | The problem is that despite all the well-intentioned efforts of those who have devised the various syllabuses , whether for the old CSE/ ‘ O ’ levels or the new GCSE , what can be accurately assessed may only represent a small part of what arts education is all about . |
| 5 | Differences of opinion exist among scholars ; sometimes the appearance gives very little to go on — details may have been rubbed off or we may only have a small fragment of a large object to examine ; two or more origins may be possible contenders and it may be impossible to decide which on stylistic grounds alone . |
| 6 | When I asked Alison what qualities you need to be a marketing controller she said , ‘ you need to be able to establish immediate empathy with the people you are talking to as you may only have a short time to get the feedback you need . |
| 7 | So sometimes a horse may only have a bad habit in relation to a certain rider , and in that case it will be the rider who will need the extra training . |
| 8 | The transsexual , once stabilized in the role long seen as the only natural one , may naturally want a normal family life . |
| 9 | Kenneth Branagh may or may not make a convincing Hamlet , or Henry V , but his interpretation is unlikely to be dissected by an audience of Scandinavian princelings or British monarchs : when it comes to imagining how such exotic beasts behave , the performer has a head start on his audience . |
| 10 | An individual may not acquire a specific attitude — on how to vote , about race or trade unions — from the mass media , but he/she will derive information from the media which will contribute something to each of these individual areas . |
| 11 | This interaction may or may not achieve a successful conclusion for both sides depending on their level of skill . |
| 12 | But if the gist of the article is genuinely to demolish the rumour , or to demolish the credibility of its mongers rather than its victim , the article as a whole may not bear a defamatory meaning . |
| 13 | It may not appoint a legal guardian for the child or consent to an adoption order or an order freeing the child for adoption or providing for his adoption abroad ( s33(6) ( b ) ) . |
| 14 | Therefore , it may not represent a hiatal hernia as reported by Lauren and Cauthorne , who showed that these mucosal rings occur near the upper margin of the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 15 | A congressman 's support for the president on a particular issue may not represent a straightforward quid pro quo ; it could well be a mark of his gratitude for favours bestowed upon him in the past . |
| 16 | Although ED 65 does not give detailed guidance on the circumstances in which it is considered that the measure of comprehensive income is incomplete , the discussion paper on ED 65 acknowledges that , under the modified historical cost system , the proposed SCFW may not give a complete reflection of the real change in financial wealth . |
| 17 | If you use an equaliser during your video editing sessions , carefully check the effect of each adjustment as you go , by monitoring the sound over a loudspeaker ( headphones may not give a true impression of how the tone corrections will sound when played back in the normal way ) . |
| 18 | And it has been well established that some animals , such as pigs , are capable of completely consuming animal bones , along with other kitchen waste , so that even the sample of animal bones from a site may not give a true picture of diet . |
| 19 | You may not see a great deal of your creative team — many agencies take the quite reasonable view that the creative people should be busy making advertisements , not chatting up clients , and in one or two like Collett Dickinson & Pearce , the creative department holds itself superior and aloof and deals with clients only through its emissaries , the account executives . |
| 20 | Even improvements in a number of effluents may not realize a noticeable change in water quality unless they constitute a substantial part of the flow of a watercourse . |
| 21 | I 'm not saying you may not lose a few good people but on balance it 's worth that sacrifice rather than pursue an enforced redundancy policy . |
| 22 | I lifted Harry until he was sitting on the walkway and then , still gripping him tightly , wriggled up beside him so that we were both sitting there with our heads wholly above water , which may not sound a great advance but which was probably the difference between life and death . |
| 23 | Unless extra resources and training are made available , the ESO procedure laid down in the Children Act 1989 may not herald a new emphasis on the causes of truancy . |
| 24 | Since the catalytic cleavage of DNA by bleomycin occurs by a free radical mechanism it may not require a long residence time on its binding site . |
| 25 | Banks may not operate a simple liquidity ratio |
| 26 | Although linking pensions to prices rather than incomes may not produce a great difference in one year , after twenty-five years , assuming incomes rise by 2 per cent per annum faster than prices , the price-linked pension will be worth only approximately 60 per cent of the earnings-linked pension . |
| 27 | It may not produce a positive result . |
| 28 | Even if the thermal conductivity of the fuel does turn out to be much lower than assumed , Gittus believes that this ‘ may not produce a significant increase in temperatures during a severe accident ’ . |
| 29 | This may not worry a small brewer unduly since other effects offer greater potential for variability but it is anathema to bulk production which must couple closely to marketing and customer perception . |
| 30 | At this stage , asylum seekers may not have a legal adviser . |